I personally think that developers are generally hopeless at communication. Perhaps it's the higher prevalence of autistic people in the field. I'm a dev (although not as good as the steem(it) peeps), and a little bit autistic, so I understand why communicating with people is the last thing a dev wants to do when there is coding to do. But this is still no excuse for a company structure to be apparently less than optimal at communication.
Having said all that, and perhaps because I'm a little bit autistic, I just plug along and do my own thing regardless of whether they are communicating or not. It would be better if communication was better, but I'm more interested in coding and looking into random subjects to see if I can find some interesting angles to challenge my brain.